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PLee
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 3712
Location: Brooklyn, NY

7/7/17 8:45 AM

I always admired this person

Robert Millar always displayed tenacity and courage as a rider. His transition to Phillipa York only reinforces that image. The decision to transition is an incredibly difficult one, and goes to the core of one's identity, and I have to respect anyone who decides to undergo it:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/a-statement-from-cyclingnews-contributor-philippa-york/

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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6884
Location: Maine

7/7/17 9:23 AM

Agree

That decision takes guts which I am not sure I would have. I recently went to a seminar on representing LGBTQ folks, and one of the panelists was the first person in Maine to coach sports both as a male and female.

York was a fine rider, KOM and 4th in a TdF.

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

7/7/17 11:19 AM

I like seeing that 'people' can be people and not be ostracized out of livelihoods due to life choices more and more. Are we actually evolving with regards to social non mainstream acceptance. Well, some and more and more of us are perhaps. ;)

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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield

7/7/17 8:31 PM

Are we witnessing a benefit of the internet's atomization of mass communication? You know, individual voices find like minds, unaffiliated people witness the dialog and are not threatened, compassion and acceptance follows. I'm anxious about the time between now and when the several billion people currently rooted in the past either accept or die. In that mean time the violent spasms that accompany the change will hurt those most easily victimized.

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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC

7/8/17 7:34 AM


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the several billion people currently rooted in the past either accept or die.

By the time these few million dies, there will be several million new ones who are rooted in the "new" past. The cycle continues.

Women's right to vote, blacks to sit in the front of the bus, gay rights, now sex change. There will be other changes to come.


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n that mean time the violent spasms that accompany the change will hurt those most easily victimized.

Is it just the "violent spasms that accompany the change" that hurt the easily victimized?

Seems to me, those were the very same people who had been victimized all along, but just unknown to the rest of the society. The "violent spasm" is a clash of those justifying the oppression vs those who oppose it.

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